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It's considered poor form to initiate the HB thread before or after the birthday. Proper etiquette mandates that HB threads are started on the day of the birthday only. Carry on.

Happy Birthday, Matt!

We need a separate Happy Brithday mattp thread

And everyone knows that French peeps are smaller than 'merkin peeps. where's that thread with the pic of the darlin' little French girl with her g-string showing compared with the fat american sow chowing down on a big mac and fries...?

In my case, sometimes that is not so...

Reinhold is one my Heroes. I'd screw yaks with him anytime!

Look out people, minx is looking for a slinkie to push down the stairs. ...and Rudy should go to Italy, not France. Get better, minx!!!1 :kisss:

I just knew someone would come back with that line... Ich bin ein Berliner...

Might be that Dachau thing... took all the fun out of being ein Munchener.

Loved the bit with the "sumo wrestler" at the beach. I bet more than a few peeps walking by were thinking, "WTF???"

I saw a report on this... as I recall they are not open-air - they have a privacy curtain or some such. I took several shits in the Paris public toilets about 10 years ago. It was about $0.50 (IIRC) a shit and the machines were very clean. I would imagine that they are roughly the same style of shitters that Seattle is getting rid of. Why we as a people can't keep from fucking up a good thing is beyond me.

Oh Mel, we're just kidding. Keith and I would never do anything that sinister, cruel, and evil. Would we, Bug? Would we...??? Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!1

My Biggest Climbing Hero is the

After placing a few of these over the years, I'd like to think I got the mad skilz to do it right. My holes tend to be a damn-near tolerance fit, and that's in granodiorite, to boot. Agreed; no argument there, bill. Although I must "confess" that some of my earliest bolts are still in use and bomber, from what I've heard... They go in like butter in limestone/karst, like a bitch in Tuscarora sandstone (think Seneca and New River Gorge), and reasonably quite well in Idaho granodiorite. I've placed a few at Lightning Dome on the S Fork of the Clearwater, and it takes me about 20 minutes from the first bash to clipping in the draw. YMMV. Might have to take you up on that. And I have never been accused of being new skewl...

Mark, I'm no photographer or producer, but here is my set-up: The complete Mammut bolt kit (exploded view) The 15 mm Mammut bolt (exploded view) The bolt is about 1.5 inches long after the bolt is fully sunk in the hole and the "snap off" portion of the head is broken away. The cutting head is integral with the bolt - no drill required. Driving the Mammut bolt with hammer and holder The "snap off" portion of the bolt head is jammed tight into the holder once the hammering begins. The holder is rotated slowly about the intended hole while you repeatedly hammer the strike plate. This striking and rotation performs the cutting action. Once the hole is drilled, blow it out, insert the truncated cone into the cutting end of the bolt, and reinsert the assembly into the hole. Drive solidly with the hammer against the strike plate until the threaded end of the bolt is flush with the rock face. The bolt is now set. Tightening the stud After the bolt is set flush with the rock, strike the holder solidly with one glancing blow parallel to the rock face to snap off the spent bolt head. Thread the stud through the hanger and into the bolt and tighten with the Allen head end of the holder. The bolt is now ready for use. Removing the spent bolt head Use the tapered drift pin to remove the spent bolt head (the "snap off" portion). This requires the use of the hammer to beat the drift pin through the drift pin hole and force the removal of the spent head. The holder is ready to drill the next bolt. Don't know why you would say this. These things are all the fuck over Europe... It is indeed a drop-in style anchor. The obvious difference is that a separate drill (power or otherwise) and bit is not required since the bolt itself is the cutting bit. I don't know of what other drill you speak that I allegedly described. I was describing only my Mammut kit in my earlier posts. And I don't know what relevance hand drilling at job sites has to do with hand drilling for rock climbing anchors. And I've never power drilled a climbing anchor - never intend to neither (but that's another discussion).

Chin up, pink. It's not you that they don't like, it's your... Naaaaah, you're right. they don't like you. Nighty night!

what's wrong, pinkie? feeling lonely cuz no one will talk to you?

YEA!!!1 Minx is here! :kisss:

I wonder if that kind of scare tactic constitutes a crime in this day and age. I imagine it would have to come with some sort of written (or phoned in) threat of the "danger" to actually qualify as a felony.

nobody talks about climbing on this site. It's cc.com Oh wait! Nobody actually climbs on this site. We just talk about it some. And rag on k'bone a lot.

Fuck, gurl! 5 hours!!!1?? Did they pay you for that time?

I heartily enjoy it. It makes me feel better about myself. Like driving an ugly sports car...

Run, Forrest! RUN!!!1

Well, granted if it's overhanging, I can see that you only have half a rope with which to work. But that wasn't made abundantly clear in tomtom's explanation. The way tomtom explained it, it was as if one could never tag gear more than half a rope length. Clearly, I have tagged gear for longer distances than that. But then, I haven't climbed El Cap...